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<span id="Constraints-for-asm-Operands"></span><h4 class="subsection">6.47.3 Constraints for <code>asm</code> Operands</h4>
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<p>Here are specific details on what constraint letters you can use with
<code>asm</code> operands.
Constraints can say whether
an operand may be in a register, and which kinds of register; whether the
operand can be a memory reference, and which kinds of address; whether the
operand may be an immediate constant, and which possible values it may
have.  Constraints can also require two operands to match.
Side-effects aren&rsquo;t allowed in operands of inline <code>asm</code>, unless
&lsquo;<samp>&lt;</samp>&rsquo; or &lsquo;<samp>&gt;</samp>&rsquo; constraints are used, because there is no guarantee
that the side effects will happen exactly once in an instruction that can update
the addressing register.
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